. >> a parole board panel is recommending the release of former charles manson follower leslie van houten. >> leslie van houten a name on the list forever linked with the most notorious crimes of the 20keth center any wp charles manson. >> you don't understand me. that's youron trouble. not my fault you don't understand me. i don't understand you either! >> the story of charles manson, his family, and all the horror they wrought is buried in archives. i memorialized in media. long obsolete. and yet somehow it feels present. that hot summer night that caught the world utterly unprepared. when los angeles became suddenly a very scary place. it was august 9th, 1969, around 8:00 a.m. a officer jerry derosa was a young cop with the lapd working the day l shift. >> first call ie got was a cal to go to cielo drive. it came outie as a drunk in a c. >> reporter: officer d derosa cruised up benedict canyon and found the dead end street called cielo drive. a neighbor flagged him down. and suddenly the drunk in a car call became something else. >> he had told me that the maid came running back out ye